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bda714
Guide
Aug 12, 2015

iSCSI corruption. Bitlocker locked? Not looking good, ALL my data!

So my LUN Volume has been working great with iSCSI initiators on windows 8.1 and now 10.  No problem.  Today, after upgrading my Surface Pro 3 to win 10,. I create a new initiator on the admin page for ReadyNAS, connect with the iSCSI initiator. and it connected, but right away had a exclamation mark thing over the drive letter in explorer for each drive.  It was lagging bad and would keep giving (not responding) message in explorer.  After a few mins I disconnected the initiator from the target and moved back to my main desktop PC.  I reconnected on that PC like I normally have been, and now all of the drives are showing that exclamation point icon, and the drive that I was actually trying to access from the surface P3 is showing as bitlocker locked.  If I try to open any of the drives in explorer, it says disk corruption or damaged.  This is really freaaking me out being that this is literally all of my data and I am new to NAS so I was thinking that being that I had RAID 5 I was safe.  It never occuired to me that I would lose 4 HDDs at once.  Is there anything I can do or am I totally boned here?  Please help and thank you in advance for ANY help.

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  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Did you try accessing the same target using multiple devices at the same time? That will always lead to corruption. Accessing a LUN from one PC and sharing it from there is the way to go.

     

    So you have no backup?

     

    Can you send in your logs (see the Sending Logs link in my sig)?

    • bda714's avatar
      bda714
      Guide

      Ok, I will look at the link in your sig.  Then post the logs here to this conversation?  And to answer, I only was using one computer at a time.

      • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
        mdgm-ntgr
        NETGEAR Employee Retired

        The link mentions the email address to send the zip file to.

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